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When you are lying in your swag and looking up at the stars it’s hard to imagine any better place to spend the night. You see a shooting star every seven minutes, on average, up this way. And there is something quite romantic about being finely tuned to the phases of the moon. This spectacular photograph was taken in the Australian desert by richocam.
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